5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
48.1%
A vulnerability in the HTTP 2.0 request handling code of Cisco
IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Event Management
Service daemon (emsd) to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
# Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
CPE = "cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xr";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106448");
script_version("2022-09-23T10:10:45+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-09-23 10:10:45 +0000 (Fri, 23 Sep 2022)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-12-08 15:09:24 +0700 (Thu, 08 Dec 2016)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-01-04 14:43:00 +0000 (Wed, 04 Jan 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9205");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Cisco IOS XR Software HTTP 2.0 Request Handling Event Service Daemon Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20161207-ios-xr)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("CISCO");
script_dependencies("gb_cisco_ios_xr_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("cisco/ios_xr/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the HTTP 2.0 request handling code of Cisco
IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Event Management
Service daemon (emsd) to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability is due to improper handling of HTTP requests.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP 2.0 requests to the
targeted system.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the emsd to crash.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161207-ios-xr");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( version == "6.1.1" ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"See advisory" );
security_message( port:0, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
48.1%